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Guru Pūrṇimā. You all know much about Guru Pūrṇimā. I have spoken many times, giving lectures on its meaning. 'Gu' is darkness, and 'Ru' is the light. It is that light which dispels darkness. The earth was under the ocean, and the Varāha incarnation brought this globe out. At that time, for the first time, the radiance—the light of the sun and moon—came from that side. That was the Guru: the movement from darkness to light. In this modern world, we cannot survive; we cannot do anything without a Guru. But 'guru' does not mean only a sādhu or a ṛṣi. It is everything that gives you knowledge: how to drive a car, how to ride a cycle, how to write, how to do something, how to cook. Oh my word, 85% of people in the world cannot cook. "Dhanjī bhāī, Dhanjī bhāī, kyā, jaldī aur kis prakār kā baḍiyā bhūṣaṇ banāyā? Baingan mein kya masala daalna hai?" And in tomatoes, and in this, in this, you should keep, what—not round potatoes—and in different vegetables, there should be different spices. We have only one formula: just put any masala in, Hari Om Tashad. So today, see that 85% of people are not able to cook food. What has happened? The women who are educated are very good. Today, women want—in this era, in this world—if you want to bring peace, then only women will be able to do it, or else it will not happen. Yes? No one claps their hands. People are there. "Wow, you played well." That was the first one to be played. But those women became arrogant. Anger became arrogance. The money will come, but they say, "Why should I make bread? I will make it for you." Your mother said, "Make it there. I am a doctor." Yes, "I am a big officer. How can I make food?" Because of the ego of the woman, the stove got spoiled. Instead of the stove, the gas was made into a gas in the stomach. That means what happened was that a restaurant was opened. And the restaurant did not happen. So nowadays, someone makes such food and takes it to the supermarket and eats it hot. Now that Baisa didn’t pick it up and ask him to put something in it. He said, "Put tomato in it. Tomato is made of ketchup." That man said, "I don’t want to do ketchup." So he said, "Put curd in it." Brother, the food that is said is that if you sit, it is like a cup of tea. If you sit, it is like a cup of tea, and the food is the same food. The tea of the mother’s hand is like a cup of tea. So the mother who gives nutrition to the baby from inside the womb, feeding that from her body, from the navel—that is why that mother’s food is divine food, it is prasād. But he forgot. "Uskā śarīr nirog rahegā, cancer hogā." Therefore, it is very important that one has to cook at home, themselves, but learn first how to cook. Yeh bāt hai? Therefore, even cooking is a master, and you have to become a master, and you have to teach your children also to be a master. So, all my bhaktas who came here from other countries—and this is in the whole world, in the whole world, this message is going. They see you also. So, my dear ones, please do two things: don’t put the children in the nursery, and don’t get food from the restaurants. Cook yourself. Husband, cook it, or wife, but mother or father, make food yourself. It will be cheap, it will be good, number one.